“What would happen if five of America’s top 11 most-beloved talk show hosts all talked on top of each other for an hour? You’re about to find out,” said Jimmy Kimmel in the opening of Strike Force Five, a podcast from the major late-night hosts.
Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver have launched the first episode of the Spotify podcast, which was named after their text chain.
It was an hour of random stories and jokes about the strike including how Stephen Colbert’s mother dated a Nicaraguan dictator, lawsuits involving their shows (hello Viacom and Google), how many of the hosts wanted to join the clergy and how Colbert and Kimmel were both in the running to be the announcer for Magic Johnson’s 1998 talkshow The Magic Hour.
“Would it be fair to say that in 2008 the hosts didn’t get along quite as well as we do?...
Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver have launched the first episode of the Spotify podcast, which was named after their text chain.
It was an hour of random stories and jokes about the strike including how Stephen Colbert’s mother dated a Nicaraguan dictator, lawsuits involving their shows (hello Viacom and Google), how many of the hosts wanted to join the clergy and how Colbert and Kimmel were both in the running to be the announcer for Magic Johnson’s 1998 talkshow The Magic Hour.
“Would it be fair to say that in 2008 the hosts didn’t get along quite as well as we do?...
- 8/30/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
On Sunday, April 7, 2019, the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (Ts Alliance) will present its 18th Annual Comedy for a Cure, which raises funds to support research into a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (Tsc).
Comedy for a Cure will be held at Academy La starting at 5 pm with a 1.5 hour reception and silent auction, followed by a short program, live auction and comedy show. The event will also celebrate the Ts Alliance’s 45th Anniversary.
This year’s comedian lineup features headliner John Henson with additional performances by Kate Flannery, Orny Adams and Karen Rontowski. The event’s hosts include long-time Ts Alliance supporters Jim O’Heir and Alex Skuby.
In addition, the Szilagyi Family of Southern California will be presented with the “Courage in Leadership Award” for their tenacity and inspiration to everyone living with Tsc. Dr. Joyce Wu, Founder and Director of the UCLA Tsc Clinic, will also be...
Comedy for a Cure will be held at Academy La starting at 5 pm with a 1.5 hour reception and silent auction, followed by a short program, live auction and comedy show. The event will also celebrate the Ts Alliance’s 45th Anniversary.
This year’s comedian lineup features headliner John Henson with additional performances by Kate Flannery, Orny Adams and Karen Rontowski. The event’s hosts include long-time Ts Alliance supporters Jim O’Heir and Alex Skuby.
In addition, the Szilagyi Family of Southern California will be presented with the “Courage in Leadership Award” for their tenacity and inspiration to everyone living with Tsc. Dr. Joyce Wu, Founder and Director of the UCLA Tsc Clinic, will also be...
- 3/26/2019
- Look to the Stars
On Sunday, April 8, 2018, the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (Ts Alliance) will present its 17th Annual Comedy for a Cure, which raises funds to support research into a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (Tsc).
Comedy for a Cure will be held at The Globe Theatre at Universal Studios Hollywood starting with a 1.5 hour reception and silent auction at 5 pm, followed by magic, music and hilarious comedy, interspersed with a short program and live auction.
This year’s event features emcee Melissa Peterman, with performances by Renee Albert and Dana Snyder, magician Shane Brady, Kate Flannery (The Office) and the Tony Guerrero Jazz Band, magician Mark Furey and headlining comic Jimmy Shubert (King of Queens and Last Comic Standing).
Long-time Ts Alliance supporter Jim O’Heir (Parks & Recreation) will honor Cathy Jackson, Director of Advocacy Relations at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, for leading efforts to increase awareness about infantile spasms, a catastrophic type of...
Comedy for a Cure will be held at The Globe Theatre at Universal Studios Hollywood starting with a 1.5 hour reception and silent auction at 5 pm, followed by magic, music and hilarious comedy, interspersed with a short program and live auction.
This year’s event features emcee Melissa Peterman, with performances by Renee Albert and Dana Snyder, magician Shane Brady, Kate Flannery (The Office) and the Tony Guerrero Jazz Band, magician Mark Furey and headlining comic Jimmy Shubert (King of Queens and Last Comic Standing).
Long-time Ts Alliance supporter Jim O’Heir (Parks & Recreation) will honor Cathy Jackson, Director of Advocacy Relations at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, for leading efforts to increase awareness about infantile spasms, a catastrophic type of...
- 4/5/2018
- Look to the Stars
The writer, director and producer best known for his screenplay for Cool Runnings died on October 2 following a long battle with brain and sinus cancer. He was 55.
Aside from the 1993 comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, Goldberg’s writing credits include Should’ve Been Romeo with Paul Ben-Victor; Little Giants starring Rick Moranis and Ed O’Neill; Bushwhacked with Daniel Stern; Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr; The Lovemaster starring comedian Craig Shoemaker, which Goldberg also directed; and television series Brutally Normal.
Goldberg also acted in and directed numerous Off-Broadway plays and regional productions. He received an Mfa from the University Of Michigan and a Bfa from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is survived by mother Dorothy Lean, father George, daughter Kayla, brother Mark and sister Randi. Additional surviving family include former wife Karen Ray and siblings Francine Lean, Jodi Whitten and Gary Lean. Goldberg is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
The funeral...
Aside from the 1993 comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, Goldberg’s writing credits include Should’ve Been Romeo with Paul Ben-Victor; Little Giants starring Rick Moranis and Ed O’Neill; Bushwhacked with Daniel Stern; Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr; The Lovemaster starring comedian Craig Shoemaker, which Goldberg also directed; and television series Brutally Normal.
Goldberg also acted in and directed numerous Off-Broadway plays and regional productions. He received an Mfa from the University Of Michigan and a Bfa from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is survived by mother Dorothy Lean, father George, daughter Kayla, brother Mark and sister Randi. Additional surviving family include former wife Karen Ray and siblings Francine Lean, Jodi Whitten and Gary Lean. Goldberg is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
The funeral...
- 10/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The writer, director and producer best known for his screenplay for Cool Runnings died on October 2 following a long battle with brain and sinus cancer. He was 55.
Aside from the 1993 comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, Goldberg’s writing credits include Should’ve Been Romeo with Paul Ben-Victor; Little Giants starring Rick Moranis and Ed O’Neill; Bushwhacked with Daniel Stern; Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr; The Lovemaster starring comedian Craig Shoemaker, which Goldberg also directed; and television series Brutally Normal.
Goldberg also acted in and directed numerous Off-Broadway plays and regional productions. He received an Mfa from the University Of Michigan and a Bfa from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is survived by mother Dorothy Lean, father George, daughter Kayla, brother Mark and sister Randi. Additional surviving family include former wife Karen Ray and siblings Francine Lean, Jodi Whitten and Gary Lean. Goldberg is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
The funeral...
Aside from the 1993 comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, Goldberg’s writing credits include Should’ve Been Romeo with Paul Ben-Victor; Little Giants starring Rick Moranis and Ed O’Neill; Bushwhacked with Daniel Stern; Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr; The Lovemaster starring comedian Craig Shoemaker, which Goldberg also directed; and television series Brutally Normal.
Goldberg also acted in and directed numerous Off-Broadway plays and regional productions. He received an Mfa from the University Of Michigan and a Bfa from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is survived by mother Dorothy Lean, father George, daughter Kayla, brother Mark and sister Randi. Additional surviving family include former wife Karen Ray and siblings Francine Lean, Jodi Whitten and Gary Lean. Goldberg is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
The funeral...
- 10/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sometimes there's merit in going for a very specific niche in your comedy, and for Craig Shoemaker his target of choice seems to be audiences above the ages of 40 - although if you're just a pop culture glutton who's watched shows that came on before you were born, his comedy won't go over your head. Shoemaker's comedic arsenal relies heavily on familiar comic tropes like parenting woes, the romantic waning of an aging marriage, and general references to older films and TV. There's nothing very groundbreaking or new to be found in Craig Shoemaker's Daditude stand-up special, and sometimes the bits feel stale or like rehashes of jokes comedians have been telling for ages, but he engages his audience well while still coming up with a few new nuggets to keep things moving.
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- 5/1/2013
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
On Saturday night, Vanguard Cancer Foundation hosted “Cancer is Not Contagious but Laughter Is!,” an evening honoring the work of Robert Nagourney, MD, founder of Rational Therapeutics in Long Beach, CA.
More than 300 guests, many of them cancer survivor patients of Dr. Nagourney’s, enjoyed an evening with special guest actor John Stamos, whose mother Loretta Stamos (also pictured above) founded Vanguard. Comics Allen Stephan, Craig Shoemaker, Jimmy Brogan and Frazer Smith rounded out the evening’s fun.
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More than 300 guests, many of them cancer survivor patients of Dr. Nagourney’s, enjoyed an evening with special guest actor John Stamos, whose mother Loretta Stamos (also pictured above) founded Vanguard. Comics Allen Stephan, Craig Shoemaker, Jimmy Brogan and Frazer Smith rounded out the evening’s fun.
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- 10/4/2011
- Look to the Stars
I have a cold. This happens to me every year after school ends and grades come in; as soon as all the pressure is off my immune system fails spectacularly and I end up searching for a cold medicine that walks the line between not getting me high and actually working. I've always felt that colds during summer or late spring are particularly cruel, both because they prevent you from really enjoying the newly lovely weather and because the pollen only exacerbates what's already going wrong. TV, alas, will not be helping me feel any better. Here's Monday night's offerings:
8:00 p.m.: "10 Things I Hate About You" on ABC Family.
"24" on Fox. Two hour eighth season finale at a special time.
"Chuck" on NBC. Two hour third season finale.
"Dancing With the Stars" on ABC. New one hour episode.
"How I Met Your Mother" on CBS. Fifth season finale.
8:00 p.m.: "10 Things I Hate About You" on ABC Family.
"24" on Fox. Two hour eighth season finale at a special time.
"Chuck" on NBC. Two hour third season finale.
"Dancing With the Stars" on ABC. New one hour episode.
"How I Met Your Mother" on CBS. Fifth season finale.
- 5/24/2010
- by Intern Rusty
"Hey, baby. Walk nasty for me". This low-voiced, seductive lead-in is the gateway to endless jokes about an extremely long penis in this serviceable showcase for stand-up comic Craig Shoemaker, a winner at this year's American Comedy Awards.
Directed by first-timer Michael Goldberg (co-writer with partner Tommy Swerdlow of "Cool Runnings" and "Little Giants"), "The LoveMaster" is distributed by Rocket Releasing and boasts small roles and cameos played by Farrah Fawcett, Kurt Rambis, Karen Witter and Courtney Thorne-Smith. Its theatrical life should be brief, but Shoemaker's fans will discover "LoveMaster" in the video rental market, where it should do brisk business.
There's a nominal plot about comedian and impersonator Craig Shoemaker) trying to work out his personality problems with a therapist (George Wendt), including amusing flashbacks with the lead as a young boy (Kyle Thomas) and teen (Andrew Starnes). But the real attraction is Shoemaker's onstage talents and R-rated material, captured in a 1995 concert at the Improv in Tempe, Ariz.
With a gift for facial contortions to go along with his perfect vocal mimicry, Shoemaker knows how to work a crowd into hysterics with a combination of Baby Boomer nostalgia and raunchy sex jokes. His Don-Knotts-as-Barney-Fife shtick is inspired, while caricatures of his pot-smoking grandmother and an effusive gay man are engagingly exaggerated.
Shoemaker has fun with young audience members who may not get all his 1950s- and '60s pop culture references. He's most exciting when he changes personality mid-joke, but too often he returns to the titular LoveMaster. It's a very funny bit but limited to variations on how one can use a member comparable to an elephant's trunk to impress the ladies.
THE LOVEMASTER
Rocket Releasing
Rocket Pictures presents
A Coleman/Breen production
A Michael Goldberg film
Director Michael Goldberg
Producer Tom Coleman
Executive producers Alan David, Mark Breen
Directors of photography Phil Parmet,
Jeff Zimmerman
Production designer Gary Randail
Editors Richard Currie, Jeremy Kasten
Music Michael Skloff, Giorgio Bertucelli
Costume designer Maud Kersnowski
Color/stereo
Cast:
Craig Craig Shoemaker
Therapist George Wendt
Young Craig Kyle Thomas
Teen Craig Andrew Starnes
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Directed by first-timer Michael Goldberg (co-writer with partner Tommy Swerdlow of "Cool Runnings" and "Little Giants"), "The LoveMaster" is distributed by Rocket Releasing and boasts small roles and cameos played by Farrah Fawcett, Kurt Rambis, Karen Witter and Courtney Thorne-Smith. Its theatrical life should be brief, but Shoemaker's fans will discover "LoveMaster" in the video rental market, where it should do brisk business.
There's a nominal plot about comedian and impersonator Craig Shoemaker) trying to work out his personality problems with a therapist (George Wendt), including amusing flashbacks with the lead as a young boy (Kyle Thomas) and teen (Andrew Starnes). But the real attraction is Shoemaker's onstage talents and R-rated material, captured in a 1995 concert at the Improv in Tempe, Ariz.
With a gift for facial contortions to go along with his perfect vocal mimicry, Shoemaker knows how to work a crowd into hysterics with a combination of Baby Boomer nostalgia and raunchy sex jokes. His Don-Knotts-as-Barney-Fife shtick is inspired, while caricatures of his pot-smoking grandmother and an effusive gay man are engagingly exaggerated.
Shoemaker has fun with young audience members who may not get all his 1950s- and '60s pop culture references. He's most exciting when he changes personality mid-joke, but too often he returns to the titular LoveMaster. It's a very funny bit but limited to variations on how one can use a member comparable to an elephant's trunk to impress the ladies.
THE LOVEMASTER
Rocket Releasing
Rocket Pictures presents
A Coleman/Breen production
A Michael Goldberg film
Director Michael Goldberg
Producer Tom Coleman
Executive producers Alan David, Mark Breen
Directors of photography Phil Parmet,
Jeff Zimmerman
Production designer Gary Randail
Editors Richard Currie, Jeremy Kasten
Music Michael Skloff, Giorgio Bertucelli
Costume designer Maud Kersnowski
Color/stereo
Cast:
Craig Craig Shoemaker
Therapist George Wendt
Young Craig Kyle Thomas
Teen Craig Andrew Starnes
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/9/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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